The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-04
! PROPELLER LOST.
Tho Steamer Vernon Lost IN tho
Recent Gales on Lake
Michigan.
The Crew and Passengers thought to
Have Perished-Tw0 Frightful
Runaways.

For Once an :Audisnos Fails to Go Orasy
on an Alarm Of Firs-Ths Usual
Railroad Smash.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Oct. 3l.-The disaster
10 the passenger propeller Vernon, which
was wrecked in the terrible gale that
| swept Lake Michigan Saturday and her en-.
tire crew Of twenty-five persons and sew
eral passengers undoubtedly lost, involves
! greater loss of life than any previous dis
Rster on the lake this season, not excepting
the burning OF the propeller Charicvoix,
| when twenty four persons were drowned.
A singular coincidence is that the Vernon
| was the vessel which took the place Of the
Champlain in the Northern Michigan line,
| and had only been on since August I. She
was one of the finest furnished passenger
boats on the lakes and had valuation Of
e7S.OOO. ~ 20
The finding of tho pilot house Of the pro-
peller Vernon by . tug near Manitowoc.
Wis, settles all doubt regarding the iden-
| tity Of the lost vessel Scarcely any traces
Of the cargo have been seen and nothing
has been heard Of those on board, and it is
feared that not Q single soul Of the thirty
or more aboard is left to tell the story Of
the disaster. A foriOrn hope is enter
tanned that passing vessel may have
picked up some Of the unfortunates, but
| with the terrific sea that was running, it
would have been almost o miracle to ac-
| complIsh Q rescue.
The captain Of the life-saving crew at
Two Rivers, Wis.,, describes the storm as
the worst ever seen by him on the lake,
the waves rising to the height Of thirty or
forty feet. The first information received
BY him was from the mornings papers, al
though the wreck is supposed to have
taken place within seven miles Of Two
Rivers. 1t is his impression that no ono
has survived the wreck. 1t was bitterly
cold on the lake, he said, and a person
, could not have stood the exposure over
night. The spray dashing over the men
clinging to the wreckage must have frozen
as it fell and completely encased the UNI
fortunates, if indeed they held on long
enough to permit such a thing.
Neither at Manitowoc or Two Rivers were
any traces of the lost vessel to be heard Of
either by vessels arriving there or by tugs
going few miles out ~ q
Captain Hawkins, of the schooner Will
liam Home, arriving in Milwaukee yester-
day morning, reported passing three dead
bodies Saturday afternoon about six miles
south Of ManitOwoc. Ono was that OF
! q woman with long black hair and tho
others men. One had a life-preserver on.
The following three names OF passengers
have been secured, though it can not be
positively ascertained that the per-
sons were aboard: Miss Katie Gal
lagher, Mackinaw island; Miss Sallie
Dunkin, a cousin of Miss Gallagher;
e. Baumgeas, Chicago. The two ladies
were on their way to Chicago. So far,
they are the only names obtained Of pas
sengers, as there appears to have been no
list kept.
END OF A FROLIC.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Oct 3l.-Two couples
arrived here on the morning train from
Atchison yesterday and securing a car
riage drove over to the east side Of town
and started down Charles street. When ut
the corner of Eighth and Charles streets
the horses became frightened and ran at
full speed for two blocks when one of them
SHE'D, throwing the carriage against lamp
post and hurting the four occupants to the
sidewalk against the curbing One OF the
ladies. Miss Ida Watson, had her head LAID
open from her forehead TO her mouth and
six of her teeth Knocked out, and was
otherwise injured, but the physicians say
she may recover. The other lady, whose
given name is Minnie, but whose surname
it was impossible to learn, had six ribs
broken and received internal injuries from
which she will die. Haskin Collier was
| thrown headlong against the lamp post and
his jaw broken and mangled. He also re-
! ceived other injuries and will die. The
Their occupant Of the carriage was but
| slightly injured. He refused to give any OF
the names, saying that the parties were
well known in Atchison, and il the facts
became noised about it would ruin them.
The people were all extremely well
dressed.
FRIGHTFuL RUNAWAY.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. 3l.-Mrs. George
Baumbach and her aged father, GALES
Rueff, respected German citizen, and her
four children were in spring wagon on
the way to the cemetery to decorate with
Towers the grave OF n recently deceased
member of the family, when at the crossing
Of the Short Line railroad, the horse,
frightened at an engine, ran away. The
front axle broke and precipitated Mrs.
Raumbach against the curbst0ne with ter
rible force. breaking her neck and fractur-
ing her skull. The babe which she held IN
her arms fell on her back and was only
slightly hurt. Ruef was also fatally in.
iured, his skull being fractured and his
right leg and three ribs broken. 90.
CRUSHED TO DEATH
CLEVELAND, O., Oct 3l.-Two fast freight
trains on the Nlckel-plate railroad collided
yesterday between Irving and Silver Greek,
Ind, and both engines and several cars
were demolished. Engineer Daniel Stay
ton and Fireman J. NJ. Orion. OF Conneaut,
were crushed to death, and Engineer Bath
was terribly mangled and may die. The
other trainmen escaped. The accident is
attributed to the carelessness of an opera
tor, who failed to give one train orders to
sidetrack for the other.
BLOWN TO FRAGMENTS.
BUTTE, NJ. T., Oct 3L-Saturday evening
about five O'Clock an explosion Of giant
powder occurred in the ST. Lawrence mine,
and Timothy Lynch and Daniel O'Bricn
were blown into such small fragments that
their remains were placed in a small box.
The force OF the explosion extinguished tho
lights in the Anaconda, four hundred feet
distant.
"A woman will growl about any thing In
. theater, except one thing. She never
says word about the woman's tall hat in
front OF her. she'll bob screpely up and
down and right and left. and crane over
and under TO see the stage, but she vii! not
object. Why? Because she's very likely
got one on herself That should not pre-
ont hnR Trnvv No.